The Guardian’s George Monbiot draws attention today to the discomfort that many environmentalists feel when it comes to discussing global population growth. Responses to the article take him to task for positing a false dichotomy between population and consumption, but both the article and the comments are worth a look.
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Unpopular thoughts about population
Posted in media stories, tagged economic growth, global warming, greed, population on January 31, 2008| Leave a Comment »
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